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2017 World Masters Games - 10 quick tips for masters’ success

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Are you involved in a team sport and searching for ways to improve your team’s chances of success in masters tournaments?
Interview with sprint star Lisa Carrington

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We caught up for a chat with Lisa Carrington a week before the 2015 World Canoe Sprint Championships. She was spending her final training camp along with the rest of the New Zealand team in Training in Paradise – paddling on lakes Bled and Bohinj (Slovenia).
Expedition : Papua - Grand Canyon of the Pacific

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This “Grand Canyon” was a kind of riddle we were unprepared to solve. But in turning our backs on the daunting Canyon and the river locals call the Beriman, we turned our attention to finding a solution and a logistic that would one day make the dream of kayaking the Grand Canyon Pacific a reality.
World Master Games 2017 prepares to welcome 13000 International competitors

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As World Masters Games 2017 marks two years to go until the event kicks off on 21 April 2017, individual sports are upping preparations to welcome 13,000 international competitors to Auckland, New Zealand.
New Zealand canoe polo teams Dominate at Oceania Championships

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Six out of seven of the New Zealand representative canoe polo teams took away gold last weekend at the Oceania Championships, held at Nagambie Lakes, Victoria, Australia.
Teneale Hatton Takes One Giant Leap Toward Olympic Dream

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World Champion and Olympic kayaker Teneale Hatton is gearing up for another record breaking year on the water, with one of the busiest event calendars of any athlete in the sport and the backing of One Giant Leap, the New Zealand based developers of a power meter for kayakers.
Brigden-Jones and Flood impress at the Blue Lakes Regatta in New Zealand

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Jo Brigden-Jones and Naomi Flood reaped the benefits of a three week training block by recording some impressive results at the Blue Lakes Regatta in Rotorua, New Zealand on Saturday.
Tomasz Kryk optimistic about the upcoming kayaking season!

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It’s no secret that the women are the stand-outs on the kayaking team. Tomasz Kryk's charges are still nursing injuries; however, the 'Rio de Janeiro' operation will soon get underway, because the Olympic qualifiers are planned for the World Championships in August next year.
Joe Morley and Nouria Newman win their second extreme worlds title in a row

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After a weekend of intense racing on the legendary Wellerbrücke rapids in Austria’s Ötztal valley, 25-year old Joe Morley from Leeds in Great Britain outpaddled a field full of the best kayakers in the world in his final run, claiming the second Extreme Kayak World Champion title of his career, ahead of Kiwis Mike Dawson and Jamie Sutton.
Translators wanted for non-English canoe sprint news

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Sportscene is on the lookout for people who can translate non-English canoe sprint news articles or video interviews to English. For each translated article you will receive 20 or 25 Euro. Your English needs to be good (not perfect).
NZ Extreme Race Series finale – Bullerfest Boater X

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On Friday 28th of February a large swarm of paddlers once again descended on the small town of Murchison, located on the banks of the Buller River in the central upper South Island, ready for New Zealand’s largest kayaking festival – Bullerfest to kick off.
GB Youth Raft team: Awe-inspiring journey to double World Silver and a Bronze

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An incredible tale of determination and overcoming personal obstacles behind the GB Youth Raft team's New Zealand success.
Brazil wins Men’s Open, but New Zealand shines on final day

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The spectacular Down River climax to the World Rafting Championships in Rotorua today (Sunday) saw Brazil confirmed as the best men's rafting crew in the world, but local river expertise saw New Zealand crews excel to lock out the overall gold medals in the Women's Open and Men's and Women's Masters categories.
White water genius on show in Rotorua, New Zealand

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The world’s greatest exponents of white water rafting have been fine tuning their skills this week in and around Rotorua ahead of the elite and masters World White Water Rafting Championships which blast off tomorrow (Thursday) at Okere Falls near Rotorua.
Final day of the IRF World Championships Rafting for U19/U23

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The first overall winners of the 2013 World Rafting Championships have been decided with the victors in the Under-23 and Under-19 men's and women's classes being decided after an epic 45 minute down river race along the Rangitaiki River this morning.
Kiwis take gold on first day of Rafting World Championships

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It was a good day on the white water for Kiwi crews at the 2013 IRF White Water World Rafting Championships, which kicked off today on the Tarawera River at Kawerau with the Sprint and Head to Head legs for both the Under-23 and Under-19 classes.
The U23 World Rafting Champs from Brazil to defend their title in New Zealand

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The team will be at the 2013 WRC [World Rafting Championship] to defend their title, which they earned in 2011.
Two months to go to whitewater heaven

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The countdown is on to the 2013 World Rafting Championships with just two months to go before 70 plus teams from more than 30 countries come to New Zealand and the Bay of Plenty to go for gold.
Newsletter Rosalyn Lawrence

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I have just finished a training camp in Prague, where the World Championships will be held in September. Despite the entire venue recently being flooded to record levels, the course was completely repaired and ready to paddle on.
Newsletter Sort Open International Freestyle 2013

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We are looking forward to seeing you in the city of Sort on the natural channel for the great white water festival. Registration for The Sort Open Freestyle International is open and will close on July 20th.
ICF explains marathon rules issue

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The chairman of the International Canoe Federation Marathon Racing Committee, Jorn Cronberg, has responded to comments by paddlers that rule changes, including a raft of penalties for aggressive behaviour, are somehow detrimental to the sport.
Paddlers irate at ICF marathon canoe rules

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Top canoeists have voiced anger at the introduction of new rules governing canoe and kayak marathons.
Martina Wegman; the Dutch girl who had to travel to paddle

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Hat-trick! Sportscene completes the 2012 White Water Grand Prix trio; we first interviewed Katrina, then Nouria and now its time for 2nd place overall Martina Wegman. Over an 8am breakfast chat on Skype, I meet the Dutch Triple Sickline Champion extreme and freestyle paddler who has won more competitions than most of the women's field and she is still only 23.
Kiwis seek top canoe slalom coach

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Two of New Zealand’s top canoe slalom athletes are looking for a high performance coach in Europe to help them with their quest for success in 2016.
Camphill Surf Park - New Zealand’s First Recreational River Project

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Camphill Surf Park was made possible through unprecedented levels of cooperation between one of New Zelands’s largest utility companies, Contact Energy, the Central Otago Whitewater Association (COWA), regional & local town councils, government agencies & landowners.
News and views from Tate Smith’s world of elite sport & nutrition

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Welcoming extreme paddler and slalom athlete Nouria Newman to Sportscene

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Winner of last year's White Water Grand Prix in Chile, France's Nouria Newman gives us an insight into her immediate kayaking goals and long term ambitions. She joins Sportscene as our latest Contributor; she intends to focus on profiles of creeking athletes who receive less media attention than their slalom counterparts.
Aussies take top canoe slalom crowns in New Zealand

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Lucien Delfour continued his canoe slalom rise as Australians dominated the Oceania championships on the Mangahao River near Shannon today.
Silver stars come out for canoe slalom champs this weekend

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Jess Fox cuts a relatively anonymous figure in Sydney, while Vavra Hradlilek is something of a rock star in his native Czech Republic. Two threads link the unlikely K1 pair together, however - both are Olympic silver medalists in canoe slalom
Luuka Jones; advice from a slalom Olympian how to become a team

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Only recently, Sportscene talked over the challenges of being an individual extreme athlete and a competitive rafter with Sam Sutton. Slalom Olympian and fellow New Zealander Luuka Jones further expands on this issue many multi-event athletes face.
The top 3 ladies about the 2012 Whitewater Grand Prix in Chile

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Nouria Newman: "Other highlights included seeing most of the boys as intimidated as I was at the start of the Gol Gol race, having the-almost-perfect-run on the Puesco race, and seeing everyone happy on the river and super excited when we first ran the Futa all together."
Extreme kayaker and professional rafter; Sam Sutton’s rival mindsets

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In a gig-venue and shop named The Store near Okere Falls, Rotorua, New Zealand, Sportscene Director Rob has a morning coffee with extreme paddling poster-boy Sam Sutton.
New Zealand’s Darryl Fitzgerald sets sights on K1

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Top Kiwi paddler Darryl Fitzgerald is targeting the K1 in next year’s sprint season.
Stage 2 WWGP - Nouria Newman places first again, Mike Dawson drops out

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Thirty of the world’s best kayakers competed in a "Boulder Dash" race on Thursday, December 6, in stage two of the 2012 Whitewater Grand Prix on the Rio Puesco in Central Chile. Eric Deguil (FRA) took first place among the men and Nouria Newman (FRA) placed first among the women.
Stage 1 WWGP - Mike Dawson and Nouria Newman place first on the Rio Gol Gol

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Earlier this week the 2012 Whitewater Grand Prix kicked off in spectacular fashion with a whitewater enduro race on the Rio Gol Gol in Chile. Over thirty of the world’s best whitewater kayakers competed in the first stage of this 5-stage, 14-day event.
Whitewater fun in Kawerau, New Zealand this weekend

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With warmer weather and summer fast approaching, paddlers and rafters from across the Bay of Plenty are expected to take on the Tarawera river this weekend ahead of the World Rafting Champs in 2013.
Lifesaving: Surf comeback for Lisa Carrington

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New Zealand Olympic kayaking champion Lisa Carrington is getting back into lifesaving next month. The 23-year old gold medalist from London will be competing in Adelaide, Australia – her first competitive outing since she won the 200m K1 event at the Games.
Sprint and Head to Head at Okere Falls on the Kaituna

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It was a fine Spring day for the opening event of the White Water Rafting 2012 National Championships in the Bay of Plenty on Friday. The first day was on the Kaituna at Okere Falls just north of Rotorua and featured the short, sharp and spectacular Sprint and Head 2 Head races.
Interview with Race Director Tim Marshall - Pre Worlds Rafting

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On the eve of the rafting Pre-World Championships, Race Director Tim Marshall is ticking off a list of prerequisites to make sure all is right for the beginning of competition tomorrow.
About Rotorua, New Zealand

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Rotorua sits on the shores of Lake Rotorua of New Zealand. There are several other lakes nearby. Along with the geothermal wonders, there are also the more usual water activities such as fishing, boating and white water rafting.
Pre Worlds Rafting: Kiwi paddlers taking it to the world

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It’s a very big holiday weekend for local white rafters as they compete at the New Zealand Championships on rivers round the region – the Kaituna, Tarawera and Rangitaiki.
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Revamping paddle sports; Sportscene mobile site goes live

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Super-soaking its followers with Slalom, Sprint, Freestyle and Marathon news, race feeds and athlete pages, Sportscene has launched a mobile application for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
2012 Pre World R6 Rafting Championships - Rotorua New Zealand

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Rotorua is excited about its selection to host the 2012 Pre Worlds and the 2013 World Rafting Championships in November next year as it will be the first time the international event has been staged in New Zealand.
Whitewater timing system for Kawerau

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Kawerau District Council is presently working on the installation of a specialist whitewater timing system to be used during future whitewater sports held in Kawerau. This will provide top international quality timing results for future slalom and whitewater races to be held on the Tarawera River.
2012 Olympian Luuka Jones about training alone. With a smile…

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Luuka Jones has really white teeth. I know this because she’s usually smiling. Some would say she has plenty of reasons to smile, not least because she already has her Olympic entry confirmed.
New Zealand Open slalom titles decided

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Swiss kayaker Michael Kurt has won the New Zealand Open canoe slalom K1 title for the second consecutive year, beating a star-studded field of international paddlers on the Mangahao River near Palmerston North last Sunday.
This weekend the 2012 Canoe Slalom New Zealand Open

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A star-studded international field is competing but it's the Kiwi canoe slalom contingent that's fired up for this weekend's New Zealand Open in the Manawatu. Rotorua-based paddlers Luuka Jones and Mike Dawson have already qualified for the London Olympics, as well as Tauranga-raised Cook Island competitor Ella Nicholas.
Holmes wins drama filled race but it is now Ali’s Day

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Zane Holmes has won a drama filled Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain IronMan race at a packed Newcastle beach, coming from behind in the final swim and board legs of the day’s last Eliminator race to claim victory.
Smith winds back clock with win for the ages

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Northcliffe’s Kristyl Smith has taken out the women’s eliminator in round three of the IronWoman Series at Newcastle Beach on Sunday.